Internet and social networks are constant sources of information. Not just from professionally verified news, but also personal comments, joking, satirical or ironic publications that if they do not notify us we can understand that they are true. So they cause a huge amount of misunderstandings that cause not a few discussions, risque comments and the like.
So in the face of the proliferation of those profiles that take practically any topic as a joke, from Facebook they have decided to put a stop in the only way they understand, which is by tagging each of those pages depending on the tone or content that we are going to find. And satiricals will become a new category that will alert us that much of what we read there is not serious. And if it is, that we take it with the same humor of the profile that published it.
Pages start to get tagged
Facebook has been the one that has run to warn its users with a publication where it warns that “as of today in the US, we’re testing a way to give people more context about the pages they see. Gradually we will begin to apply tags including ‘official public’, ‘fan page’ or ‘satire page’ to posts on News Feed, so that people can better understand who they come from. “
Starting today in the US, we’re testing a way to give people more context about the Pages they see. We’ll gradually start applying labels including ‘public official,’ ‘fan page’ or ‘satire page’ to posts in News Feed, so people can better understand who they’re coming from. pic.twitter.com/Bloc3b2ycb
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) April 7, 2021
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In this way, when we see that someone makes partisan comments about an event, event or general issue, We can understand your passion if it is a fan page, or on the contrary, take as official communications without further evaluations any press release that an organism, entity, company, company or public institution uploads to the social network without expecting anything other than a neutral and purely descriptive text.
It is true that many times, in our feed of news, contents appear that, seen like this without labeling, manage to make us think that they are something else or they yell at us to respond … and not always in the best way. Thus, from now on, when we see something that seems too extreme, we can know the nature of the comment and adapt our response. Although as in everything in life, a polite response and within civic margins is always the best solution. As Facebook has announced in its official message, At the moment it will only arrive in the US although we hope that it will soon make the leap to other territories like Spain. So that we can start taking things with the peace of mind they deserve, right?
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